Prolomit postmodernu modernou: případ radikálního realismu
| Title in English | Breaking the Postmodern with the Modern: The Case of Radical Realism |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | This paper draws upon the philosophy of culture developed by Michael Hauser in his books Cesty z postmodernismu. Filozofická reflexe doby přechodu (Paths out of Postmodernism: A Philosophical Reflection on the Time of Transition, 2012) and The Times of Interregnum. Transitory Ontology and Alain Badiou’s Work (2021). Hauser interprets the contemporary cultural situation as a “time of transition” – a period in which the previously dominant postmodernism has exhausted itself, yet a new cultural paradigm has not yet been established. Since the turn of the 21st century, Remodernism has emerged as one of the hopeful approaches in artistic practice. In the Czech environment, it culminated in the formation of a new art movement: Radical Realism (manifesto 2016). The manifesto formulates a vision of engaged art that rejects hegemonic postmodern artistic strategies (conceptualism, intermediality, etc.) and turns to the tradition of realistic painting inspired by Soviet art from the Thaw period. It attempts to be a synthesis of Socialist Realism and the interwar avant-gardes. The paper examines whether this “remodernist step back” can represent a hope for genuine aesthetic and social change and a breakthrough from the current cultural status quo, or whether it merely reproduces a nostalgia for modernist certainty. |
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